#young people

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#cure #groups #hard #hard work #members

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#each #father #his #how #i

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#believe #better #dangerous #ended #ever

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#adored #clue #course #help #hung

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively. ↗

— Edward Norton

#how #know #networking #people #social

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#consider #education #equally #fewer #implications

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people. ↗

— Georg Solti

#discipline #gave #grounding #hard #hard work

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#anymore #because #even #geography #history

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#adulthood #disadvantaged #force #house #one-quarter